A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…

Again: It is unlawful, 1. When one adjureth him who is not called to it, as those Sons of Sceva did, Act. 19.13, 14. This certainly being a peculiar and extraordinary gift, as those of prophesying, fore-telling of things to come, speaking with Tongues, and healing of the Sick with a word, were; ought not without special warrant to be usurped more than they.

Again: It is unlawful, 1. When one adjureth him who is not called to it, as those Sons of Sceva did, Act. 19.13, 14. This certainly being a peculiar and extraordinary gift, as those of prophecying, fore-telling of things to come, speaking with Tongues, and healing of the Sick with a word, were; ought not without special warrant to be usurped more than they.

2. It is unlawful when it is done by exhorting or obtesting of, or praying unto the Devil himself, and entreating him as we do God, which way implieth, 1. Friendship with him when we entreat him as a Friend. 2. Prayer or worship to him who is not the object of it. 3. An obligation on us to him, when he yieldeth to obey; and he will not fail, if by any means he can, to put that complement or obligation on us, and so Ne •romancers, Witches, Exorcists, &c. may cast out Devils by collusion (though possibly not in a way so explicit), whereby the Devil. gaineth his point upon such as effectually, as if there were a most expressly formed Covenant betwixt him & them; and thus ⟨p. 142⟩[…] ⟨p. 143⟩[…] ⟨p. 144⟩the Pharisees falsely and blasphemously, charged on our blessed Lord,